The Knowledge

Place-based challenges for schools mean locality matters

Tanya Ovenden-Hope sets out the key findings from new research on a multi-academy trust Hub model for schools intended…

JL Dutaut
Tanya Ovenden-Hope
Opinion: Accountability

Peer review can’t replace inspection – but it can inform it

The power of peer review depends on its being kept separate from the incentives and disincentives of formalised accountability,…

JL Dutaut
Kate Chhatwal
Opinion: Accountability

Safeguarding should matter to Ofsted as much as to schools

This week’s announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that Ofsted and the DfE get the impact accountability is having on headteachers,…

JL Dutaut
Duncan Spalding
Opinion: Workforce

Is moving up a bigger retention problem than moving out? 

A new leadership pyramid has emerged that is pulling talent up faster than it can be replaced, argues David…

JL Dutaut
David Benson
Opinion

Solutions: How to make Healthy Eating Week inclusive for autistic children

Eating can be a stressful experience for autistic young people, explains Jo Galloway, but that doesn’t have to limit…

JL Dutaut
Jo Galloway
Ofsted

It’s up to the government to change the Ofsted grading system

‘Inspection is rarely something that schools look forward to’, writes chief inspector

Freddie Whittaker
Amanda Spielman
Opinion: Attendance

Attendance is an issue, but it is never the issue

The answer to poor attendance is simple but implementing it is neither quick nor easy, explains Jonathan Roe

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Roe
Opinion: Edtech

We’re opening Oak up to help teachers and make educational AI more reliable

John Roberts explains how open government licensing will make Oak National Academy a launchpad for lesson planners, curriculum designers…

JL Dutaut
John Roberts
Opinion: Workforce

Making teaching attractive again must be priority one for the next government

Any incoming government will have to put an end to the failed experiment of competition that is driving teachers…

JL Dutaut
Jonny Uttley

Must Read

Opinion

Banning phones in schools is a lazy opt-out  

No one disagrees unfettered use of smartphones in schools is a bad thing, but indulging in a moral panic…

Freddie Whittaker
Hannah Carter
Opinion

Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong

Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy

Freddie Whittaker
Seamus Murphy
Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens
Sir Hamid Patel

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
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Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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